In his story, Roger Fields, captures the heart of generosity in a creative way that inspires readers to live their lives with open hands toward others.Addie Jarrett, author of "Created to Shine"Roger L. Fields was raised on a small farm in Northeast Oklahoma. Many hours of his childhood were spent sitting at an outdoor table listening to his Cherokee grandfather share stories from his own childhood. Those stories and their subtle messages had a profound impact on Roger's li...

Will, on an evening convertible ride en route to dinner with friends, unwittingly passes by the scene of a gruesome homicide. While he and his friends enjoy dinner and conversation, a breaking news story on television sends his ordinary life into a tailspin as he becomes a suspect in the homicide and must defend himself from the likely perpetrator of the crime.Will's one desire is to maintain his farmer's life of hard work, routine, and simple pleasures, but it will never be the sa...

A new edition of the best-selling field guide with 25 all-new plates covering the birds of Hawaii.For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds has been a popular and trusted bird watching guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Now that the American Birding Association has expanded its species Checklist to include Hawaii, the Peterson Guide is the first edition to include the wonderfu...

This one-stop guide to opening a restaurant from an accountant-turned-restaurateur shows aspiring proprietors how to succeed in the crucial first year and beyond.The majority of restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! Roger Fields--money-guy, restaurant owner, and restaurant consultant--shows how eateries can get past that challenging first year and keep diners coming back for more. The only restaurant start-up...

**Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature PoetryA new collection by an award-winning poet who “presents her apprehensions of the natural world with striking accuracy and emotional impact” (Orion Magazine)**Denise Levertov has called Pattiann Rogers a “visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed.” Qui...

人類生殖和胚胎研究的前瞻檢驗，她的研究對胚胎學和發育生物學影響深遠人類在成人時期大約擁有幾十兆個細胞，每個細胞的直徑約為0.01公釐。如果每個細胞都像人這麼大，那麼一個成人的身體從頭到腳量起來就會有幾百公里那麼高。從受精卵這個可以說是最重要的單一細胞的角度來看，促成這個龐大且錯綜複雜細胞群的編舞實為驚人。所有這些不具思考能力的細胞是如何協調行動以創造出具有知覺的人類呢？長期以來，科學家們一直在努力讓懷孕更容易、更安全、更成功。在《生命之舞》中，發育和幹細胞生物學家瑪格達萊娜．澤尼克－格茨將我們帶到了理解人類生命創造的前線。她花了 20 年時間解開發育的奧秘，從一顆簡單的受精卵變成一個擁有 40 兆個細胞的複雜人類。澤尼克－格茨的研究工作既實用又驚人：她對小鼠、人類和人造胚胎模型的開創性實驗為更多女性如何維持懷孕帶來了希望。《生命之舞》處理科學最強大的力量和人類最關心問題的交點，對未來生育能力和生命本身的描繪極具啟發性。【好評推薦】（依姓氏筆畫序）國立臺灣大學生命科學系教授　丁照棣央廣...

This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the sixth Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book is about that war of attrition against the native mammals and birds of England and Wales from the middle ages to the present day. There is widespread knowledge about the huge declines in popular species such as song birds, farmland birds, otters, and pine martens, however, there is less understa...

In our century, the subject of time has become an area of serious inquiry for science. Theories that contain time as a simple quantity form the basis of our understanding of many scientific disciplines, yet the debate rages on: why does there seem to be a direction to time, an arrow of time pointing from past to future?In this authoritative and accessible Sunday Times bestseller, physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield demo...

The ultimate field guide to birds of Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoros and Mascarene Islands.The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world, and a diverse avifauna rich with exciting endemic taxa; birds such as vangas, mesites and asities live nowhere else. This guide covers the whole of the Malagasy region, which comprises both Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean includin...

An irresistible stocking-filler: a hilarious romp through the science of Christmas.'This book fizzes with fun' Sunday Telegraph'I love it' Carol Vordeman'A perfect present' A C Grayling, Financial TimesHow does snow form? Why are we always depressed after Christmas? How does Santa manage to deliver all those presents in one night? (He has, in fact, little over two ten-thous...

This is the untold story of one of the most lethal and successful soldiers of the Second World War - a highly decorated hero as well as a self-confessed rogue. In the tank war in the desert of North Africa, Mister Major Geoff, as he came to be known, quickly showed himself a soldier of superb athleticism, unwavering will to win and almost superhuman instincts when it came to survival and outwitting the enemy. Almost incredibly he won the Military Cross on his very first day in action. He f...